Gage for goring shoe-uppers



(No Model.)

W. B. KINSLEY. GAGE FOR GORING sEqE UPPER'S.

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FEED STATES PATENT GAGE FOR .GORlNG'SHOE-UPPERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 302,569, dated July 29,1884-. Application filed June 9, 1884. (No model.)

To ztZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM BRADFORD- KINsLEY, of Stoughton, in thecounty of Norfolk, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Gages for Goring Parts of Shoe-Uppers; andI do hereby declare the same to be described in the followingspecification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which-Figure 1 is a top View, and Fig. 2 a longitudinal section, of a duplexgage of my invention, the nature of each single gore of which is definedin the claims hereinafter presented. Figs. 3 and 4 are Views of the backand front portions of an interlining or part to which the gore is to becemented. Fig. 5 is a view of the gore. Fig. 6 is-a top View, and Fig. 7a side view, of the said gore and back and front parts as placed andcemented together. Fig. 8 is a transverse section taken lengthwise ofthe gore-clamp or cement-gage hereinafter de-v scribed.

My present invention has reference to the gore-gage for which LettersPatent of the United States of America numbered 297,998, and dated May6, 1884:, have been granted to me, and it consists, mainly, in thecombination of such a gage with a gore holder or clamp hinged to it, andserving, when turned down upon a gore arranged in the median cell of thegage, not only to hold down such gore, but to define the boundaries ofthe cement applied to it. WVith this gage the gore and the back andfront pieces of a shoe-upper can be accurately and expeditiouslyadjusted, and the cement for connecting them be applied to the gorewhile it may be in. its cell, the said cement, by means of what istermed the goreclamp or cement-gage, being confined to the parts of thegore to be overlapped by the pieces to be connected to it.

The drawings exhibit a duplex gage-viz., one for the parts of each shoeof a pair of shoes when each shoe is to have but one elastic gore. Thegage answers also for the parts of a shoe to have two elastic gores.

In the said drawings, A and B denote the two pieces of shoe-uppermaterial, and O the elastic gore. The said two pieces are in prac-' ticearranged with the elastic gore and lapped thereon, in manner as shown inFigs. 6 and 7.

'next to such edge of the cell.

The gage represented in Figs. 1 and 2 is a plate or board, D, havingformed in it three shallow cells, A, B, and G, for each elastic gore,and the two pieces to be lapped. on and cemented to it. The medium cell0 is of the proper depth and size to receive the elastic gore, andprojects below the two flanking cells A and B the thickness of the gore.The said two cells A and B are adapted to fit to and receive the parts Aand Bin a manner to properly adjust them with reference to a gore, 0,when such gore is in the median cell, and to cause each of such parts Aand B to lap on the gore the distance required for connecting it theretoby cement.

The gore-clamp or cement-gage is shown at E as consisting of a sheet ofplate metal or other suitable material concave transversely, and of awidth less than that'of the gore by the width of the strips of cementtobe made thereon. This plate is hinged at one end of it to the board D,(the hinges being shown at H,) so as to enable the plate to be turneddown upon the gore when the latter is in its cell, the edges of theplate then resting or bearing or being borne on the gore. A knob, G,projecting from the plate, enables a person by the aid of it to readilyraise the plate off the gore. Each of the longer edges of thecement-gage E, when the latter is down on a gore, is parallel to thenext adjacent edge of the gore-cell, and at a distance therefrom equalto the width of the strip of cement to be laid on the gore At each endof each of the spaces existing between the cement-gage E and the nextadjacent and parallel longer edges of the gore-cell there is in theboard 1) an inclined groove or port, F. After a gore may have beenplaced in the median cell, the cement-gage is to be turned down uponsuch gore, and a brush dipped in cement is to be inserted successivelyin the upper ports F, and drawn from thence over and upon the gore andagainst the gage E, and into or through the lower ports F, the brush inthe meantime making on the gore stripes of cement of the right width.The inclined ports F prevent the cement from being scraped out of thebrush by the upper or lower edges of the lateral cells, while the brushmay be in the act of being drawn across the gore. Were it not IOU forthe ports, the bottom of eachof which in clines from the gore tothe'outer end of such port, the cement would be liable to be scrapedoutof the brush and laid too thickly on the gore at its edges,

Having thus applied the cement to the gore,

the pieces to vbe connected to it are to be laid in their cells, inwhich case such pieces will overlap those portions of the gore on whichcement may have been laid by the brush. Having pressed the pieces downupon the gore, the cement-gage is to be raised off the gore, and it andthe pieces cemented to it are to be removed from their cells.

I am aware of the machines described in the United States Patents Nos.85,492, 128,065, and 143,27 5. Neither of such patents describes agore-gage like that hereinbefore specified as provided with three cellsand having the middle one extending below the others, arranged in oneplane and of like depth. Although in such patents hinged flaps areshown, eachis employed with different mechanism and for a differentpurpose or purposes from the cementgage of the hereinbefore-describedgore-gage, such cement-gage being to aid in the application of cement tothe gore when in place in its cell.- I would further remark thatarranged with'the' median orgore cell, essentially inmanner and for thepurpose as represented.

2. The goregage consisting of the board or platform provided with thethree cells, the inclined'ports at the ends of the median cell, and thecement-gage arranged with such ports and adapted to the median cell,substantially and for the purpose as set forth.

WILLIAM BRADFORD KINSLEY.

WVitnesses:

R. H. EDDY, E. B. PRATT.

